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20th April 2022
Authors and creative tutors Natalie Young and Alex Hammond reveal the books they'll be referring to during Find Your Voice, our online...
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Autobiography, Biography and Memoir
Your book gives a narrative account of a particular part of your life, spans your whole life, or you are writing about the life of someone else. Life writing is also a wider term used to describe this genre.
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27th October 2021
In this exclusive extract from Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology, authors Sean Prentiss and Jessica Hendry Nelson explain...
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22nd June 2021
Over the years I’ve struggled with this question, finding it impossible to judge my own work. Adept at knowing when someone else’s manuscript hits...
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30th August 2023
An exclusive extract from Negative Capability, in which author Michèle recounts the year that followed her latest novel being rejected by her...
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An interview with Daisy Buchanan, author of How to Be a Grown Up and The Sisterhood, on tips for writing non-fiction.
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1. Find your story
There’s a key difference between memoir and autobiography: Memoirs tell the story of a certain period of life – not...